Why Guns Must Be Banned Now!

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^ Australia was 'locked down' for two years recently. No government should have that much power in a 'free' nation, a two year lockdown isn't freedom, it's no choice but to comply.

You mean the lockdown in response to the COVID-19 Pandemic? It isn't like they did it just for the fun of it. If the pandemic was bullets flying around everywhere killing people and transmitted from close contact with someone who was shot would you still be opposed to a lockdown, or would you be someone spouting how it is your god given right to get shot as it is your choice. As for how long it lasted Covid still exists, there are new variants and now Monkey Pox. Also Governments have Nuclear weapons, if the government wanted to just completely control our lives like a dictatorship I highly doubt we as normal civilians would stand a chance against them.

People were complying because we weren't just thinking about ourselves, we were doing it to help protect those of us who were more likely to die due to the virus. I vaccinated because I understood why there was a vaccination and because I have family I live with and worry about. I stayed home because I didn't want to risk getting myself or my family sick. The only thing off about it is the fact that people are so selfish and concerned about their own rights they tend to infringe upon the rights of others. Your right to do something is only protected until it starts affecting the rights of others. Just because you were not worried about getting sick doesn't give you the right to then get other people sick just because you don't care. I am less worried about the government and more worried about the corporations that fund them, because the government may set laws and regulations, but corporations are the ones who control the government.

Ironic how you talk about not letting fear stop you from serving children, yet you are scared of the government taking over. I am not suggesting we take guns away from people, I am suggest we train people that want to own guns how to use them properly and regulate them. Also you are just as likely to spread Covid and get people sick as you are to get sick yourself since you can spread it even while showing no symptoms.

Ah yes lets just set up armed guards at schools because that isn't dystopian at all. It is very backward to me that you are worried about a possible threat that not only hasn't happened but probably won't happen vs threats that are happening currently that are killing people actively. Again I reiterate I am not saying take away people's guns, I am saying if you are going to own a gun you should be trained as they aren't toys. We have to train and have a license to drive a boat, fish, hunt, drive a car, and we don't make a huge fuss about it. However, we want to set some restrictions and regulations on deadly weapons so kids don't need armed guards to go to school without fear of getting shot and we suddenly think the government is trying to make a power move to take away our rights. Gun owners think that we are out to get them, the government is out to get them, and if they don't own a gun suddenly they are in danger of losing all of their rights despite many countries survive just fine and have rights without armed civilians. I don't understand how someone can be unafraid of a deadly virus that if we allow to spread can mutate and possibly become even more deadly yet terrified that if they surrender a deadly weapon a majority of law abiding citizens don't need that the government will just suddenly become a nazi regime.

I am just going to say one final thing because I know I am just never going to be able to understand why people are the way the are and trying wrap my head around certain concepts will only agitate me further. I feel as though I am getting very heated without meaning to, when I can't understand something it agitates me greatly and I don't wish to take that out on anyone.

Regardless of whether or not I agree or understand you or anyone else's position on firearms and what should be done about this crisis, I hope that we are able to find a solution that can drastically reduce if not stop this horrible mass shooting epidemic. I respect your opinion on firearms and the 2nd amendment even if I do not agree with it and I am sorry for being aggressive. I try very hard to understand things from multiple sides, and sometimes when I cannot see the logic in something it drives me crazy trying to understand how someone else can.

I wish you all well and hope we can stay safe in these unsure times.

I believe that I stated, regulate the ability of people with mental illnesses to access guns, especially assault rifles. That is a nod to the need to 'do something.' Having your friends and teachers get shot up at school is a lot more dystopian than armed, friendly military personnel being posted at a school for protection. That's another nod to the need to 'do something.'

Nowhere in this discussion did I say that nothing should be done, everyone is about protecting the children. But, they still want funding for Ukraine, they still want programs for the disabled (welfare, food, housing), they want free abortions, but suggest something like an armed guard at a school (which might require funding) and it's too much.
The solution must always be to take something away from people who are not hurting anyone, not doing anything wrong, in order to limit the access to guns for the ones who are doing something wrong. That's not gonna work for me, thank God I live in a Republic with a few socialist programs. As opposed to a Democracy....

I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, and to the Republic for which it stands, one Nation under God, indivisible with liberty and justice for all.

Whether you think it is a Republic or not is irrelevant. It was founded at a Republic, there is reference to that in the Pledge. And I'm carrying on as if... You don't get to quash me, or my ideals and way of life for what you consider to be the greater good. Especially when I haven't done a damn thing to anyone, ever, in my entire life.

The problem with armed guards at schools is, there are also grocery stores. Popular tourist plots. Train stations and bus stops. Playgrounds. Cafeterias. Gas stations. Churches. Hospitals. Theatres.
One can't fund armed guards for every potentially crowded place.

The mental health issues of mass shooters are often undiagnosed before the shootings - and that's another problem. If diagnosed mental illness would mean restrictions but undiagnosed mental illness would not, people would avoid diagnoses even more than they do now.